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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 5 Question 34 (Page No. 432)

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In the discussion of stable storage using nonvolatile RAM, the following point was glossed over. What happens if the stable write completes but a crash occurs before the operating system can write an invalid block number in the nonvolatile RAM? Does this race condition ruin the abstraction of stable storage? Explain your answer.
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